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President confers Indira Gandhi Peace Prize on Ela Bhatt

Noted social worker Ela Ramesh Bhatt was on Monday conferred the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development by President Pranab Mukherjee. Bhatt, the founder of Self-Employed......

18000 people ink plea seeking peace Nobel for Malala

Over 18,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Nobel Foundation to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Pakistani teen activist Malala Yousufzai for her work in promoting education for girls.......

Nobel Peace Price: EU delighted; UK press miffed

Europe's leaders have expressed delight over the awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union and hailed it as a tremendous honour and encouragement for their endeavour to......

European Union awarded Nobel Peace Prize

The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for its long-term role in uniting the continent, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday. The committee praised the 27-nation EU for rebuilding......

Pak PM discusses Nobel Peace Prize with Indian MPs

Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, currently in the thick of a political upheaval, called himself a "man of crisis" when pointed out that his Indian counterpart had once called him a......

Why Yunus likes to be known as promoter of 'social business'

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus was in India recently to promote the concept of social business and to discuss ways to tackle social problems ranging from poverty to poor healthcare.......

Yunus on why he was sacked as Grameen Bank MD

Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who has been ousted as Grameen Bank managing director, tells Business Standard he hopes the bank continues to be run by the poor of Bangladesh. As the......

Yoghurt adulteration: Yunus lands in court

A Bangladeshi court has granted bail to Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, amid allegations that a sister concern of his Grameen Bank marketed contaminated yoghurt.Yunus appeared in Food......

'Nobel Peace Prize should go to Twitter'

Former US national security adviser Mark Pfeifle has said that microblogging site Twitter should win the Nobel Peace Prize for its role during the civil unrest in Iran. 'When traditional......

World Bank must reform policies: Yunus

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and economist Muhammad Yunus has urged the World Bank to reform its policies, saying the development lender has failed to achieve its main goal of eradicating poverty......

Shabana Azmi gets Gandhi Peace Prize

Bollywood actor and former Rajya Sabha MP Shabana Azmi received the coveted Gandhi Foundation International Peace Award 2006 for her noteworthy two-decade struggle for slum dwellers through her......

Shabana on winning Gandhi Peace Prize

Shabana Azmi makes every Indian stand six inches taller as she becomes the first Indian to receive the prestigious International Gandhi Peace Prize for her contribution in social work.Previous......

Of Jethro Tull and Aishwarya Rai

U2 frontman and last year's Nobel Peace Prize nominee Bono goes about changing the world "unfortunately, in a kind of showbizy way".Heavy metal pioneers Metallica printed 5,000 t-shirts saying......

Cruise, Oprah to host Nobel concert

Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey will co-host the Nobel Peace Prize concert to honour Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The concert will......

Mandela leaves Amitabh tongue-tied

"Do you remember me?" asked former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela.For once, even the articulate Amitabh Bachchan was tongue-tied.Both were visiting the bereaved......

Beckham cameo draws comparisons with Obama

Fabio Capello described David Beckham's man-of-the-match award as like American president Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize after the midfielder made a 30-minute cameo in a 3-0 defeat of Belarus on......

Former cricketers react sharply to suspension of Aus players

Former cricketers such as Dean Jones and Michael Vaughan on Monday reacted sharply to the exclusion of four Australian cricketers, which includes vice-captain Shane Watson, from the side for the......

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Q. One cabinet Minister says that Naxalites are terrorists while the other says they should not be called so. Do you think that killers of innocent people and warriors against the Nation should be called by different names ?
Syed Ilyas: A. more

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Q. Dr MM Singh the PM of India says opposition is opposing us , what a great search ? why he speaks against opposition in Thailand and Japan
Alok Khatore: A. tell me if there is any defination of a terrorist , Bhagat Singh was labelled terrorist by britishers Nelson mandela was labelled terrorist by...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/dr-mm-singh-the-pm-of-india-says-opposition-is-opposing-us--/25710570/answers/25715173

Q. Why people go for Non Veg, though they have all nutrition and power in veg items already ?? Are they feel to be like ,,asuras (rakshash) who were eating only non veg
Amarjit Kumar: A. he should surely be awarded Nobel Peace Prize for research more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/why-people-go-for-non-veg-though-they-have-all-nutrition-and/25694717/answers/25710589

Q. who won the first Nobel Prize in Literature,Medicine and Peace?
Flying Saucer: A. hitler was pure veggie all noble peace prize winners are non veggies more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/who-won-the-first-nobel-prize-in-literaturemedicine-and-peac/25630756/answers/25694757

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Myanmar constitution likely to dash Suu Kyi's presidential hopes

A year ago, the Nobel Peace Prize winner was feted at home and abroad and flush from her National League for Democracy (NLD) party's landslide wins... ...

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Monsanto exec other biotech pioneers win World Food Prize

* U.S. still searching for source of biotech wheat in Oregon WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - An executive with Monsanto Co and two other pioneers... ...

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Obama challenges Russia to agree to deeper nuclear weapon cuts

By Roberta Rampton and Stephen Brown BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama used a speech in Berlin on Wednesday to call on Russia to... ...

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Grameen Bank's Proposed Split Sparks Criticism

A Bangladeshi commission has proposed the government takeover or split the Nobel-award-winning Grameen Bank into 19 parts, sparking criticism with... ...

http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?801171

China and North Korea talk again, pave way for nuclear disarmament negotiations

North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan arrived for talks at the Foreign Ministry with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui that... ...

http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/latest-news/China-and-North-Korea-talk-again-pave-way-for-nuclear-disarmament-negotiations/1131064/

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